Quotes About Creativity

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.